Use this page for tips on how to ensure you are sticking to and answering the exam question!
The Three 'A's :)
AVOID
ADVICE
Always name the title and author's full name in the introduction (eg. George Orwell's essay, "The Hanging"...)
An essay is always quoted and not underlined! (eg. "The Hanging" notThe Hanging)
Be precise with your word choice
Do not say "Orwell presented his subject in a subtle manner" - He was not subtle! What you mean is indirect!
So subtle (and vague) should be replaced with indirect
Obvious should be replaced with direct
A 'story' must always use present tense!
Do not waste ink by writing the whole quote down, rather, merely incorporate quote bursts into your essay. A quote burst is taking part of the original quote and fusing it into your essay to sound like a normal sentence, but actually you borrowed words from the author.
e.g: Orwell is able to portray his primary purpose of explaining the "unspeakable wrongness" of capital punishment...
The "unspeakable wrongness" is actually from Orwell's essay, but you fused it into your own sentence.
Always try to write your essay in chronological order
If your first example is about the last thing in the essay, how will you go back?
e.g: If you start your Orwell essay about the men laughing in the end, how can u suddenly go back to the puddle?
ASAP
Analyze: a rhetorical device employed by the author
Support: with context from the given passage
Analyze: how does it effect the audience? how is it useful?
Prompt: tie it back to the prompt
Sum up the plot so that you do not confuse your reader
Even though the examiners know the context of the passage, you should still sum up the context in order to help your example
e.g: In Orwell's "The Hanging", if you do not briefly explain that the essay is about a hanging, no one will understand why the puddle is so significant or why the laughter in the end is ironic. Summing up helps back up your examples.
In the introduction, if you have two sentences of equal length, make one of them an independent clause and the other a dependent clause in order to add variety to your sentences.
Speaker vs. author
Clarify between the author and the speaker of the passage. They are not the same people
The Three 'A's :)
AVOID
ADVICE
- Always name the title and author's full name in the introduction (eg. George Orwell's essay, "The Hanging"...)
- An essay is always quoted and not underlined! (eg. "The Hanging" not The Hanging)
- Be precise with your word choice
- Do not say "Orwell presented his subject in a subtle manner" - He was not subtle! What you mean is indirect!
- So subtle (and vague) should be replaced with indirect
- Obvious should be replaced with direct
- A 'story' must always use present tense!
- Do not waste ink by writing the whole quote down, rather, merely incorporate quote bursts into your essay. A quote burst is taking part of the original quote and fusing it into your essay to sound like a normal sentence, but actually you borrowed words from the author.
- e.g: Orwell is able to portray his primary purpose of explaining the "unspeakable wrongness" of capital punishment...
- The "unspeakable wrongness" is actually from Orwell's essay, but you fused it into your own sentence.
- Always try to write your essay in chronological order
- If your first example is about the last thing in the essay, how will you go back?
- e.g: If you start your Orwell essay about the men laughing in the end, how can u suddenly go back to the puddle?
- ASAP
- Analyze: a rhetorical device employed by the author
- Support: with context from the given passage
- Analyze: how does it effect the audience? how is it useful?
- Prompt: tie it back to the prompt
- Sum up the plot so that you do not confuse your reader
- Even though the examiners know the context of the passage, you should still sum up the context in order to help your example
- e.g: In Orwell's "The Hanging", if you do not briefly explain that the essay is about a hanging, no one will understand why the puddle is so significant or why the laughter in the end is ironic. Summing up helps back up your examples.
- In the introduction, if you have two sentences of equal length, make one of them an independent clause and the other a dependent clause in order to add variety to your sentences.
- Speaker vs. author
- Clarify between the author and the speaker of the passage. They are not the same people
- Irony vs. juxtaposition
- Transitions
- JuhiANSWER (the question)